'The ship wallowed through waves up to 30 feet high in the treacherous Drake's Passage.'

(of a person) indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that one finds pleasurable)

'he had been wallowing in self-pity'

'One professes to being nearly there, the other wallows in almost morose reflection that there is considerable effort required yet to haul him from his present fankle.'

'It is a poorer person still, however, who wallows in ignorance.'

'She didn't sound impressed - she seems to think that I am wallowing in denial.'

'She wallows in television, bonding with characters as if they're her friends, while ignoring the sensible advice from her real friends.'

'The human female wallows in emotion; the male simply endures it.'

'It torments me as I stroll the course, wallowing in spectacular failure.'

'Dull, dismal and discarded, he wallows in misery and loathing.'

'Which means I've got a little less than half and hour left to enjoy wallowing in it.'

'Tonight the entertainment industry once again wallows in its own importance for the 72nd Annual Academy awards.'

'You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt.'

noun

An act of wallowing.

'But for now, while Brenda is prepared to grin and bare it, I am going to make like the proverbial pig and wallow.'

'Also, I found that I was doing more interesting things with my time and becoming more of the person that I wanted to be while I watched my old friend just sort of wallow.'

'I would like to encourage you to take advantage of it, and to warn against impulses to hide, obscure, wallow, or control.'

'I was in a wallow of worry anyway, and I didn't want to talk.'

'It's honestly not love, it's obsession and for her to want to hurt my so-called ‘friend’ whilst she lets Simon wallow is just heartless, especially when she was complaining of being hurt when he did it!'

'My nightly wallow has become such a ritual that I rarely miss it, regardless of where I am or at what time I get in - and if the water is anything less than piping hot, I'd rather go without.'

'While fans of courtroom drama and reality TV will undoubtedly eat this series up, I can't say that I especially enjoyed this wallow through the smarmy world of crime and punishment.'

'If I get thumbs down, I'll just wallow somewhere in a drink afterwards.'

'After watching Darrell Waltrip wallow miserably over the final years of his career, Wallace won't share that fate.'